"This body is breaking down, but I am not."

-- Ann Brashares

#Body Quotes #Breaking Down Quotes

“Poetry is a necessity of life,”
“So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.”
“Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.”
“When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.”
“In the absence of fear there is little faith.”
“Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.”
“Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.”

Source : Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 145-146), 1956.

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